She is an elderly woman, or rather a composite of many elderly women who, as the candidate tells it, approach her to say they were born before suffrage and dream of the day a woman becomes president.

Friends have told me how much the anecdote has moved them. I’ll admit I got choked up hearing Clinton tell it during a rally in Denver. She repeated it at a private fundraiser here later that evening.

Let’s face it, this old lady sells.

So who is she?

According to my calculations, she must have been born before the 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920. That would make her at least 87. Given her attendance at Clinton events — where she somehow elbows out Secret Service agents to converse with the candidate — she’s probably registered to vote.

And so I identified about 20 women who met these criteria, hoping to find an embodiment in metro Denver.

Unfortunately, the first on my list, 99-year-old Rose Martinez, died shortly before my call, a nursing home attendant told me.

Lena Gibbons, 100, was alive and well.

“It’s none of your business who I like for president. In this country, that’s a private matter,” she scolded.

“Aren’t we beyond that? There have been women presidents all around the world. It’s not a thing anymore,” said Plested, a Barack Obama supporter.

Maybe I deserved that. And maybe I needed to keep looking.

But my inability to find even one Denver nonagenarian dreaming of a Hillary presidency had me wondering. Might the woman Clinton describes be just a folksy figure manufactured by a message- savvy campaign?

“Oh, she’s out there,” Clinton spokesman Isaac Baker assured me.

And then Baker found her.

Her name is Anne Slobko. She is 90 years old, a lifelong Denverite and Democrat. Widowed at age 28, she supported herself and her young son working as a clerk in the Denver Police Department, where her feminism was shaped.

“When a girl would be raped, they would say she asked for it. They looked at women sometimes like they weren’t even human,” she said.

At age 70, Slobko was crushed when Denver Congresswoman Pat Schroeder decided not to run for president. Two decades later, she laments it has taken so long for a woman to step up.

“We need a change,” she said.

Slobko doesn’t remember the days before suffrage and, unlike the women Clinton describes, doesn’t make it to political rallies. She walks on crutches and says she is “too old and crippled” for campaign events.

Still, she stumps for Clinton in her Windsor Gardens retirement community, where she finds most of her female neighbors don’t support the candidate. She hasn’t been able to persuade her three sisters — ages 79, 85 and 86 — to back Clinton either.

“My sister said maybe we’ll vote for her in eight years,” Slobko said. “But who knows if we’ll be around that long. Heavens, how long do we have to wait?”

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